Conversations with History: Jaron Lanier 

Jaron says (2006)"I still have my idealism", but his later talks express regret for his former idealism, and he argues against his previous ideologies (even confessing that these were ideas that he started). His rejection of idealism is much smarter and wiser than his younger promotions of technology. His rejection of big ideas and ideologies is what makes him wise, and I was dissappointed to see him pushing the standard lines, then relieved to see that these talks were much earlier than his older and wiser more skeptical personality.

One of the more important visionaries of our age.

I like the music at the beginning!

ideas are never big enough to hold life ... brilliant.Thank you Mr Lanier.

One of the more interesting people alive today.

The perfect blend of math and philosophy is computer science. I love you Jaron and I'd like to listen to all of your videos!!! :-)

"If I'm a nutcase, I chose it. I celebrate my nuttyness and I hope others might join me in it." Thanks, UC, for the Conversations with History series. LM.

45:00 "it´s dismal to live within ideas, ideas are never big enough to hold life"

Harry is a very sweet interviewer..intelligent too..i think Jaron appreciates him

FIY: in the description it says 3/2006 but in the actual video they date at October 2005.

First i saw Mr.Jaron on a motivational video in Sri Lanka.🔥 That video mention about The social dilemma film that made by netflix. Then i watched The social dilemma film.🔥 By watching that film, i know about "Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now" book that written by Mr.Jeron. Then i red it.🔥 After red that book i got inspire to make a video about Mr.Jeron on my own youtube channel. Then i uploaded it to the youtube.🔥 After all of that i saw this interview on youtube and on 2021.01.08 now i'm watching this video and put a comment on comment section❤️🙂

It's nice seeing a time in Jaron's past when he went places wearing colorful clothes, not just simply all black.

Hey i just found this thanks to my local radio Radio Corax which happened to play this talk. I didnt know who or when neither where this was recoreded and by the way he talked i thought it must have been some recent talk - i was recorded in 2005..

Jaron spoke about the "dismal and foreboding" trends he saw in America all the way back in 2005, before social media took off, and before democratic backsliding and economic collapse kicked off (those all really started in 2007). He really is a visionary. He saw what was brewing on the horizon.

amazing instrumento

24 min mark..the indirect/ route in how these technological overlords run things is very apt..it's really bigger than the nuclear issue , and governments to me..lanier predicted the rise of this on the human side which is equally as important or more than kurzweils...this unity n division is really as bobas singularity cause were not symbiotic with technology yet..it's most important part of bridge 1..one of the best lanier interviews...

@jaredrose2 You mean the awesome intro!

@jbat100 The song at the beginning I like!

Jaron is personified humility, sensitivity and generosity. If I could interview him, I'd try to find his dark side... coz he's too good to be true, isn't he? 😉

I could see a Boards of Canada remix doing it some good

was the teacher in beavis and butthead inspired by him?

He’s the real Neo

This man seems to me like a modern day Leonardo Da Vinci! Would you like to play this instrument? He would pay to do It, what a hell of a Genius....LOL

He sounds like Michael Stipe.

Yes, perhaps Buckethead could come up with a new theme eh??? Perhaps we may email Kriesler and suggest this sort of improvement;

Myth - Dreams of the World Lanier and Buckethead on the same album; Different tunes... 11) Vulcan, The God of Inventions and Metal - Jaron Lanier (Oyewole, Lanier) (3:25) 12) Poseidon, The God of the Ocean & Amphitrite - Viggo Mortensen/Buckethead (Buckethead, Mortensen) (4:21)

Bill Joy to but he is not involved as much in terms of the culture. Kurzweill is really basically telling us what humans should do and are forced to do as oppose to actually doing what is right for the species.

Read Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor In Evolution. You will find many intelligent concepts NOT talked about in the media. *The shaman is identified as having the ability to transform the nature of something and in this way the comedian who turns tragedy into comedy, the musician who transforms sound into music, and the actor who transforms emotions into characters all meet this criteria.

my name is jaron

It means at 21:19 that the most powerful system will be the most insecure in the history of the evolution of this simbiosis [sic]. Thus, external entities could possibly "possess" the system??? Maybe?

Gotta get a Buckethead button gadget guitar, probably has 1 or 2;

@jbat100 And hilarious :)

Question is what's he think of Buckethead??? Huh?? No Buckethead questions or history interview with Kriesler?

That instrument did not sound AT ALL like I thought it would.

I met a guy at the skating rink tonight who looked like your twin brother maybe from another mother? I told him to look up the guy who first invoked the thought form called "Virtual Reality" cause me thinks he yah nocturnal twin, me lads.

I love he speaks about micro$oft word and how it 'guesses' what you want to do, in the context of a programmer having a cultural effect on the user. That's why I'm a fan of open source, well written programs. Because if a machine does something that you don't want it to do, you should be able to make the machine conform to you, you shouldn't have to conform to the machine. Politically, that idea is what the US was originally designed around. Is the US still open source?

I like Jaron but 'digital music not successful'? Dance music is massively, globally successful and has spawned many lifestyles and subcultures. and that's just one electronic genre. Many would say the genres can fulfill Jaron's idea of communicating unenglishable feelings or states of mind.

Lanier is very against open source. He basically claims that it is a negative force that is impeding the correction of what is wrong with the internet - that it is nearly devoid of providence. Open source generally undermines the ability of artists and other creative people from living off their ideas etc. And why is open source necessary in order to make the machine conform, there is nobody stopping you from writing a better program on your own. The whole thing is stupid.

I beat him as a musican ii am jewish mixed with Germán black indican and bereber

Yes, 25:07+, the mind imitates the programs, the programmers program the gadget, the gadget the human mind; Interesting, this guy likes Buckethead I am sure... Embedded Buckethead!!!

I don't trust him.

Lanier places far to much value in art, emotion, and culture. It is mankinds ability to abstract to a high degree in order to solve problems which elevates us above other animals. No amount of music or sculpture will amount to any benefit equal to that of harvesting a single fruit tree. If you seek to satiate your desires (emotion), then drugs are a far more effective means than art.

I wasted my time listening to this Lanier man. His chosen subjective perspective doesn’t work nor apply to everyone.